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Virginia Fishery Resource Grant Program 2018, Virginia Fishery Resource Grant Program, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science
Virginia Fishery Resource Grant Program 2018, Virginia Fishery Resource Grant Program, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science
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Testing The Efficiency Of Wire Reinforced Catfish Pots And Comparing Horizontal And Vertical Configurations To Catch Invasive Catfish In The James River, Va, Matt Balazik, George Trice, Charles Frederickson, Martin Balazik
Testing The Efficiency Of Wire Reinforced Catfish Pots And Comparing Horizontal And Vertical Configurations To Catch Invasive Catfish In The James River, Va, Matt Balazik, George Trice, Charles Frederickson, Martin Balazik
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The Chesapeake Bay is currently inundated with invasive blue catfish (BCF) which are a serious threat to the ecosystem balance ofthe watershed.The only reasonableway to reduce BCF numbers and biomass is by utilizing new and improving traditional BCF commercial fisheriestechniqueswith emphasis on removing small BCF. In the Mississippi region pots set in a vertically orientation are easier to fish and outperform pots set horizontally. The purpose of this project was to see how pots set in two vertical orientationswould perform compared to thetraditional horizontal orientation. During the project 7275lbs of nonnative catfish were harvested, 3088in vertical pots and 4187lbs in …